From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,131f06967722ab4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.rcn.net!news.rcn.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:57:50 -0600 Sender: jsa@rigel.goldenthreadtech.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2005? References: From: jayessay Organization: Tangible Date: 21 Dec 2004 12:24:12 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.6.25.79 X-Trace: sv3-MQtS7fuuy9MN9CDPEvgVx7ruhrHNP5lNBmWHGZPfHvr3HSt/2zcUWXbBlFpHA9ra9UGt3bPokLrJMu0!+5UF8XEvYzQMzAu4jJnu67CTp/ySQm7B/z3AhCb6ZodiQ7MudptW/qNQFczKm3w5MiDrNnwQ95Ah X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.22 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7128 Date: 2004-12-21T12:24:12-05:00 List-Id: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" writes: > jayessay wrote: > > > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > [...] > > > The point is that: > > > > > > 1. Prefix notation is misleading > > > > Not to mention inflexible and limiting. > > And how about the following alternative (which was posted to Ada-Comment in > June 2003) ? IMO, this (and the apparent version in AI-252) is a bad idea with no technical merit, with significant CogSci downside, and more than likely the result of a misguided "marketing idea". /Jon -- 'j' - a n t h o n y at romeo/charley/november com